Saturday, July 31, 2010

Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

by David Bianculli
A behind-the-scenes look at the rise and fall of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour — the provocative, politically charged program that shocked the censors, outraged the White House, and forever changed the face of television.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

So You Want to Be a Garden Designer: How to Get Started, Grow, and Thrive in the Landscape Design Business

by Love Albrecht Howard
From deciding whether becoming a garden designer is a suitable career choice to the basics of growing a small business and eventually selling it, a landscape and garden design business owner since 1994 provides practical advice.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Home Staging That Works: Sell Your Home in Less Time for More Money

by Starr Osborne
Pragmatic advice that any home seller needs to follow. Complete with photographs of real-life before-and-after transformations, this book offers strategies for each room in your house, as well as conceptual approaches to bring the parts together beautifully.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces

by Gayla Trail
For the burgeoning audience of gardeners who want to grow their own food, even with space constraints, this is the essential, encouraging, hip guide from an urban gardening expert with a huge Internet following. Full-color photographs throughout.

Monday, July 26, 2010

The King's Best Highway: The Long History of the Boston Post Road, the Route That Made America

by Eric Jaffe
A retelling of the origins and history of one of America's oldest and most important roads, the Boston Post Road. Jaffe's lively survey of its history, from Indian paths united by 17th-century settlers into one main path to the 21st-century road it has become, takes us not only down the East Coast's original main route between Boston and New York but up its original course from New Haven to Hartford, Conn.

Friday, July 23, 2010

The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World

by David Kirkpatrick
The inside story of Facebook, told with the full, exclusive cooperation of founder Mark Zuckerberg and the company's other leaders. The book follows the company from its genesis in a Harvard dorm room through its successes over Friendster and MySpace, the expansion of the user base, and Zuckerberg's refusal to sell.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Hopes and Prospects

by Noam Chomsky
One of the foremost critics of U.S. foreign policy delivers his insight into the ways that popular activism has led to substantial gains in freedom and justice around the world — and how those gains can be reached in the United States.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine

by Newt Gingrich
In his blockbuster new book, former Speaker of the House and bestselling author Gingrich issues a dire warning for America. In To Save America he lays out a bold plan to put the United States back on track.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What To Do About It

by Richard A. Clarke
From the number-one bestselling author of Against All Enemies comes an explosive new book that exposes America's burgeoning new cyber warfare capability and its vulnerabilities and documents the first skirmishes that have taken place in cyberspace.

Monday, July 19, 2010

Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions

Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum bring together an all-star cast of contributors to explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the oppostion to it. They show that whatever one's ultimate conclusion, the relationship between human beings and nonhuman animals is being fundamentally rethought.

Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America

by Jack Rakove
A new and revealing perspective on the men who invented America. Spanning the most crucial decades of the country's birth, from 1772 to 1792, Rakove uses the stories of famous (and not-so-famous) men to capture the intensely creative period of the Republic's founding.
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